No Freeways, But What About Those Viaducts?

By Brent Toderian, Planetizen

October 21, 2011

One of the bedrocks of the Vancouver city-building story, which we often refer to as “the most important decision Vancouver ever made”, was the dramatic rejection of inner city freeways in the late 60’s/early 70’s. This left our city frequently referenced as the only major North America city without a freeway. That decision led us down the very different and counter-intuitive path for livability, mobility, inner city density and urbanism that has come to be referred to as “the Vancouver Model”. More …